Risk, Environment and Modernity
Subtitle: Towards a New Ecology (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Contributors: Scott M Lash (Editor); Bronislaw Szerszynski (Editor); Brian Wynne (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: April 5, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780803979383
Subjects: Ergonomics; Human ecology; Impact of science & technology on society; Sociology, Social Studies; Social Science; Environmental Studies; Sociology; Environmental Science; Sociology - General; Science / Environmental Science; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science : Sociology - General; Environmental policy; Environmental risk assessment
First sentence: If modernisation is understood as a process of innovation which has become autonomous, then it must also be accepted that modernity itself ages.